Vincenz Ferrerius Bianchi

Vincenz Ferrerius Bianchi (1 February 1768-18 August 1855) was a general of the Austrian Empire and was Field Marshal.

Biography
Born in Vienna, he took part in the French Revolutionary Wars in the Italian Campaign as a staff officer under Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser and he captured Joachim Murat at Brescia. At the Battle of Rivoli in 1797 he was captured but released at Josef Alvinczi's request. In 1812 he was forced to assist Napoleon's invasion of Russia as a reluctant ally of the French and he took part in the Battle of Leipzig against him in 1813.

In 1815 he took part in the Neapolitan War against King Murat of Naples and defeated him at the Battle of Tolentino, dethroning him. He became a Field Marshal and was arrested by rebels in the 1848 Habsburg revolutions but was freed from Treviso two months later. He died in 1855 in Styria.